Phantom Galaxy

grand-design spiral galaxy · M74 · in Pisces

32 million light-years from Earth

A textbook spiral seen almost exactly face-on, its two long arms traced by pink star-forming regions. It is faint for a Messier object, hence the name. JWST's 2022 picture showed its dust as a lace of filaments.

• 32 million light-years · about 90,000 light-years across
• seen almost face-on, tilted about 10 to 20 degrees

kind

galaxy

catalogue

M74 · NGC 628

size

90,000 light-years across